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It is the common wonder of all men, how, among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.
The women generally wear a single loose garment, covering the head with a handkerchief when they leave the house; they do not, however, conceal their faces.
Their faces wore a discontented, rebellious look. "Did it ever occur to you that it is of no importance whether you like the way things are or not?" she asked. "You are two very small, unimportant people. Did you ever stop to think what your grandmother has had to bear?" They had never thought anything about it. Their minds had been entirely taken up with their own affairs.
Now some of the dais drew near the canopy, and consulted with their master on what seemed to be a great matter, for their faces were troubled. Presently he gave an order, whereon they resumed their seats and messengers left the terrace.
And those in front respectfully gave way before him, while those behind fell over one another to get near in case he should speak, and Leif himself paused in his greeting of Arnor Gunnarsson to look at the stranger curiously. The youth stood running his eyes over the faces of those around him, until his gaze fell upon Sigurd Haraldsson.
A gentle hissing became audible in the air, and the doctor moved quickly backwards. It came close to our faces and then seemed to play about the walls and ceiling.
I guess you've got another think coming." "Well, I'm sure there's something mysterious about those two the way they hid their faces as they came on board not appearing at supper I'm going to keep my eyes open." "All right, go as far as you like and I'm with you. Just now you may pass me the powdered sugar. I want some on this pie."
The Exchange floor was crowded with a crazy body of yelling men, their faces boiled into crimson, their eyes glowing with a fierce fire, their hats banged out of shape, their coats in many cases torn into shreds, jostling, tumbling, jumping, stretching all over each other in riotous confusion.
In place of things light, clean and easy, the kabouters had furnaces, crucibles and fires of coal and wood. Sometimes they were grimy, with smoke and coal dust, and the sweat ran down their faces and bodies. Yet there was always plenty of water in the mines, and when hard work was over they washed and looked plain but tidy.
Austere faces, inexorable discipline, penance in this world and terror in the next nothing graceful or gentle anywhere, and the void in my cowed heart everywhere this was my childhood, if I may so misuse the word as to apply it to such a beginning of life. 'Really though? said Mr Meagles, made very uncomfortable by the picture offered to his imagination. 'That was a tough commencement. But come!
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